Re: Please review wip/libreoffice

[Francois Tigeot <ftigeot%wolfpond.org@localhost>]

Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> That's great news.  I don't have time this week to look at it, but will
> kick off a buidl.  I wonder about a larger issue:
>
>    is the libreoffice package sufficiently stable, that for most users,
>    they are better off with libreoffice than openoffice (as found in
>    pkgsrc)?
>
> There's no reason the answer has to be yes to move wip/libreoffice to
> main pkgsrc - but I'm curious since I've had the impression for a while
> that libreoffice was the future.

Well, I can't answer for all situations but in my case (mostly DragonFly 
user), it's a tremendous progress.

OpenOffice never ran natively on DragonFly, only the linux binary 
package was (sort-of) usable.
OpenOffice was dying from bureaucracy and NIH syndrome. LibreOffice 
started from the same codebase but, contrary to the former project, 
started to clean up the accumulated mess ("technical debt").

The project is very open and encourages developers from all horizons to 
participate.
Thomas Klausner managed to push most misc/openoffice* pkgsrc patches in 
LibreOffice, in the few weeks following the official announcement of the 
new project.

Tons of bugs have been fixed since September 2010, some of them 20+ 
years old. I personally removed many instances of broken code and fixed 
various portability issues.

So yes, I believe LibreOffice is stable enough to be used instead of 
OpenOffice where it is possible.

-- 
Francois Tigeot

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